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Article published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 39:2 (2024) ► pp.394–408

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Skepi Creole Dutch

The Rodschied Papers

 | Jagiellonian University Krakow
 | Stockholm University
Published online: 13 July 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00116.jac
Abstract
This paper presents new Skepi Creole Dutch data from the late-18th century, found in the work of the German scholar Ernst Karl Rodschied. The creole data include pronominal and verbal paradigms, a short 60-word excerpt from a private letter, and around two dozen names for local flora. After briefly introducing Rodschied, we present the data and compare them to the existing Skepi corpus.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Ernst Karl Rodschied
  • 3.Rodschied (1792)
  • 4.Rodschied (1794)
  • 5.Rodschied vs. Van Vloten, Youd and Robertson
  • 6.Rodschied (1796)
  • 7.Final remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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